"Robert Powell Robert Powell (; born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his roles as Mark Williams in the BBC One medical drama ""Holby City"", as David Briggs in the sitcom ""The Detectives"" alongside Jasper Carrott, and as Tobias 'Toby' Wren in the ""science-fact"" drama ""Doomwatch"". His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries, especially in World War II documentaries including ""World War II in HD Colour"", ""Hitler's Bodyguard"","
"Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, ""The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards"" wrote that Donat was ""The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s"". ""The image he projected was that of the romantic idealist, often with a dash of the gentleman adventurer."" Donat suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his"
"Robert Newton Robert Guy Newton (1 June 1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard living lifestyle, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon. Newton is best remembered for his portrayal of the feverish-eyed Long John Silver in the 1950 film adaptation of ""Treasure Island"", the film that became the standard for screen portrayals"
"Donat's son, John Donat, (1933–2004), was an architectural photographer, and actors Peter Donat and Richard Donat are his nephews. Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, ""The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards"" wrote that Donat was ""The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s"". ""The image he projected was that of"
"Chipping, Donat received the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1939. In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked Mr. Chipping the 41st greatest film hero of all time. For the first time in 58 years because of a cold, retired schoolteacher Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) misses a first-day assembly at Brookfield Public School. That afternoon he falls asleep in his chair and his teaching career is related in flashback. When 25-year-old Charles Edward Chipping first arrives as a Latin teacher in 1870, he becomes a target of practical jokes on his first day. He reacts by imposing strict discipline in"
"also narrated the biographical film chronicling the life and work of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, ""The Hero's Journey: A Biographical Portrait"" (1987) and moderated the multi-volume video series, ""The World of Joseph Campbell: Transformation of Myths Through Time"" (1989), giving insightful commentary and celebrating Campbell's brilliance as a scholar and storyteller. Donat died at his home in Point Reyes Station, California, on September 10, 2018, due to complications of diabetes. Peter Donat Peter Donat (born Pierre Collingwood Donat; January 20, 1928 – September 10, 2018) was a Canadian-American actor. Pierre Collingwood Donat was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the"
"and satirist Dorothy Parker, Norman Rockwell a painter/illustrator, J. Edgar Hoover who was the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States, baseball player Babe Ruth whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons from 1914 through 1935, boxers Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Actors Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, George Burns, James Cagney, Buster Keaton, Frederic March, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, and Rudolph Valentino, American novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, American bass singer and actor who became involved with the civil rights movement Paul Robeson, Al Capone,"
"being incredibly sexist to being slightly less sexist"" This view was helped by characters like Betty Lou, ""a simpering, querulous little girl with pigtails and a squeaky voice"". Matt Robinson was, however, the voice of Roosevelt Franklin, a purple Muppet meant to represent an African American boy. While the skits with the character musically provided reading and writing concepts, critics found his jive-talking to be a cultural stereotype, and the producers of the series removed him. Roscoe Orman provided the voice of one of Roosevelt's classmates, Hardhat Henry Harris, before joining the series as the third actor to play Gordon."
"the characters of Dot and Ethel, whose friendship was one of the serial's most enduring. Other examples include Paul Priestly and Trevor Short, Huw Edwards and Lenny Wallace, Shirley Carter and Heather Trott, Garry Hobbs and Minty Peterson, Denise Fox and Zainab Masood, Poppy Meadow and Jodie Gold and Peggy Mitchell and Pat Butcher. In 1989 especially, characters were brought in who were deliberately conceived as comic or light-hearted. Such characters included Julie Cooper—a brassy maneater; Marge Green—a batty older lady played by veteran comedy actress Pat Coombs; Trevor Short (Phil McDermott)—the ""village idiot""; his friend, northern heartbreaker Paul Priestly"
"second book, ""A Fortunate Life"", was published in 2008. Vaughn died in a hospice in Danbury, Connecticut, on November 11, 2016, eleven days before his 84th birthday, after a year-long treatment for leukemia. Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known television roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E.""; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series ""The Protectors""; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–79 mini series ""Centennial""; formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season"
"to since the very early episodes of the programme as the mother of villain Nick Cotton (John Altman), she did not actually appear on-screen until episode 40 in July 1985. Dot was conceptualised by show creators, Tony Holland and Julia Smith, along with the other original characters. Introduced as the ""bible thumping, arch-gossip"" of the launderette, Dot was a character who bridged the generations. The actress June Brown was given the role after being recommended by actor Leslie Grantham, who played original character, Den Watts. Brown was offered the part of Dot Cotton for a period of three months initially"
"Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known television roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E.""; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series ""The Protectors""; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–79 mini series ""Centennial""; formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series ""The A-Team""; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series ""Hustle"" (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in"
"and Doug actors Dave Thomas as Walter Cronkite and Rick Moranis as David Brinkley. Robert Gordon (musician) Robert Gordon (born March 29, 1947) is an American musician and actor, best known as a neo-rockabilly singer. Robert Gordon grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. At the age of nine, he was greatly inspired by the Elvis Presley song ""Heartbreak Hotel"" playing on radio and decided to pursue a career as a Rock & Roll musician at that young age. His influences included Gene Vincent, Jack Scott, Billy Lee Riley, Eddie Cochran and other notable rock 'n roll music artists of the period."
"science-fiction TV series ""Doctor Who"" was originally envisioned as an Artful Dodger-style character. In Walt Disney's 1988 animated feature film version of ""Oliver Twist"", ""Oliver and Company"", the character of the Artful Dodger was changed to a streetwise anthropomorphic mutt simply named Dodger. The voice was provided by musician Billy Joel. In 1996, Jean Loup Wolfman played the role in an adaptation by Seth Michael Donsky entitled ""Twisted"". The film is set in a contemporary New York City underground populated by drag queens, drug abusers and hustlers. The Artful Dodger is a gay rent boy and hustler called Arthur, better"
"are ""The Dawn of A Tomorrow"" (1916), ""Less Than Dust"" (1916), ""Idols of Clay"" (1920), ""The Virtuous Liar"" (1924), ""The Green Goddess"" (1923 version), and ""The Average Woman"" (1924). Powell died of pneumonia in April 1925 at the age of 42. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. David Powell (actor) David Powell (December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland – April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York) was a Scottish stage and later film actor of the silent era. In his twenties Powell appeared in stage companies of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and"
"pamphleteer ballad, ""Bartholomew Fair: An Heroi-Comical Poem"" (1717). In 1715, Thomas Burnet wrote a brief biography entitled ""A Second Tale of a Tub, or History of Robert Powell the Puppet Showman."" The substitution of Robert for Powell's real name, Martin, was made to render the obvious satire upon Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford more effective. Martin Powell (puppetry) Martin Powell, (""fl"". 1709–1720; d. 1729) was an Irish master puppeteer and puppet show impresario, who put on a repertoire of satirical and parodical marionette shows that invariably featured the Punch character. He drew audiences first at provincial towns such as Bath,"
"Dot Cotton Dorothy 'Dot' Branning (also Cotton) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, ""EastEnders"", played by June Brown since 1985. Dot first appeared in ""EastEnders"" in July 1985 as the mother of criminal Nick Cotton (John Altman). The character has worked as a launderette assistant for most of that time along with original character Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard). Dot moved away with her son and his family in 1993. In reality, Brown left the show in 1993, unhappy with the axing of her co star Peter Dean, who played Pete Beale from the shows first episode to"
"overseeing the taping up in the booth, peering at the monitors, kept saying, 'Matt knows what to do. He should be the Gordon.'” He ultimately resigned from the role in 1972. Despite resigning from the character Gordon in 1972, Robinson continued to work with the show, scripting and voicing Roosevelt Franklin sketches until 1975. One reason why he resigned from the show completely in 1975 was because he did not agree with the decision to have Susan work outside the home, as he felt that women should stay home. Since 1972, two other actors, Hal Miller (1972–1974) and Roscoe Orman"
"Robert Jewell Robert Jewell (20 January 1920* – 10 May 1998) was an Australian actor who mostly worked as a Dalek or other robot operator on ""Doctor Who"" in the late 1960s, also playing a cameo as Bing Crosby in the serial ""The Daleks' Master Plan"". He later returned to Australia and played small recurring roles in ""Prisoner"" during the 1980s. Previous to travelling to England, Robert Jewell was in many stage shows including 'Moomba' in Melbourne and also did skits in 'In Melbourne Tonight'. He was friends with Toni Lamond (Australian singer) and knew Bert Newton and Graham Kennedy."
"after him, ""Goodbye Mr. Chips!"" (six-and-a-half months earlier, on February 29, 1940, at the 12th Academy Awards, Robert Donat won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the main character in ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips""). As various stars are briefly glimpsed sitting on Jack's patio (to the music of Jimmy Van Heusen's and Eddie DeLange's ""Heaven Can Wait""), off to the side, signs indicate ""BOATS"", ""YACHTS"" and ""RAFTS"", with a caricatured George Raft leaning on the last sign and tossing a coin in the manner of the coin-flipping gangster he played in 1932's ""Scarface"". Next, Clark Gable is"
"Keats - Hartley Coleridge - Thomas Hood - William Barnes - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - John Greenleaf Whittier - Charles Tennyson Turner - Edgar Allan Poe - Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson - William Bell Scott - Robert Browning - William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Arthur Hugh Clough - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman - Matthew Arnold - William Cory - William Allingham - Sydney Dobell - George Meredith - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Christina Rossetti - Samuel Butler - John Leicester Warren - Algernon Charles Swinburne - Augusta Webster - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Thomas"
"Robert Knepper Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Theodore ""T-Bag"" Bagwell in the Fox drama series ""Prison Break"" (2005–2009, 2017), Samuel Sullivan in the final season of the NBC series ""Heroes"" (2009–2010), Angus McDonough in The CW series ""iZombie"" (2015–2018) and Rodney Mitchum in Showtime's revival of ""Twin Peaks"" (2017). He has also appeared in films such as ""Hitman"" (2007) and ""Transporter 3"" (2008). Knepper was born in Fremont, Ohio, and raised in Maumee, Ohio, the son of Pat Deck and Donald Knepper, a veterinarian. He was interested in"
"Don Hastings Donald Francis Michael Hastings (born April 1, 1934), is a longtime American actor, singer, and writer best known for his 50-year role as Dr. Robert ""Bob"" Hughes on the CBS soap opera ""As the World Turns"". Hastings was the third actor to portray Hughes and is the longest serving cast member of an American television soap opera, after the death of matriarch Helen Wagner of the same series. Hastings has been active in show business since 1940 and on television itself since 1947, primarily on soap operas. A rare exception was his appearance as Dave Carter in the"
"Donat hails from. In 1984, Donat won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for ""Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Leading Role"" for his work in Brecht's ""In the Jungle of Cities"". In 2007, he won a Merritt Award for ""Outstanding Performance - Supporting Actor"" for his role in Sam Shepard's ""Fool For Love"". Richard Donat is also a director and won the Mecca Award in 2004 for his direction of ""The Drawer Boy"". Richard Donat Richard Donat (born June 1, 1941) is a Canadian actor known for his roles in Canadian and American television. He is well-known for playing"
"Drew Powell Andrew ""Drew"" Powell (born January 19, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Hoss Cartwright on the PAX series ""Ponderosa"", Cadet Drew on ""Malcolm in the Middle"", and Butch Gilzean/Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, a series regular, on FOX's ""Gotham"". Powell was born in Noblesville, Indiana and grew up in Lebanon, Indiana, graduating from Lebanon Senior High School. He graduated from DePauw University in 1998 and moved to Los Angeles where he soon began auditioning for acting roles. His first television role was as a cadet on Fox's ""Malcolm in the Middle"". He appeared"
"Thin Man"", ""Room 222"", ""The Wonderful World of Disney"", ""The Doris Day Show"", and ""Little House on the Prairie"". He was also a supporting player in films including ""Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"", ""The Decks Ran Red"" with James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge, ""Teenage Thunder"", ""Ring of Fire"" with David Janssen, and ""The Last Voyage"" with Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. Marshall Kent (actor) Marshall Kent (October 6, 1908 - January 15, 1985) was an American television and film actor who appeared in 30 television series or films between 1956 and 1977. He was best known for his role"
"Paul Stewart (as the old man), Nancy Addison (as Gabrielle Leggett), Tom Bower (as Sergeant O'Gar), David Canary (as Jack Santos), Beeson Carroll (as Marshall Cotton), Roland Winters (as Hubert Collinson) and a pre-""Star Trek"" Brent Spiner (as Tom Fink). It received three Emmy Award nominations (one for the director). The script, by Robert W. Lenski, won the 1978 Edgar Award for Best Television Feature or Miniseries. An edited version of the series was released on VHS in the 1990s; a complete, full-length, two-disc DVD edition is available. The Dain Curse The Dain Curse is a novel by Dashiell Hammett,"
"as Arthur Winslow, and Valerie White as Catherine Winslow. The play was later made into a 1948 film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat as Sir Robert Morton KC, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Arthur Winslow, and Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow. Both Mona Washbourne and Kathleen Harrison, who had been in the original theatre production, appeared. A 1999 version, directed by David Mamet, starred Nigel Hawthorne as Arthur Winslow, Jeremy Northam as Morton, and Rebecca Pidgeon as Catherine. The play has also been adapted for television, including a 1989 production starring Gordon Jackson as Arthur Winslow, Ian Richardson as"
"Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 42 novels, one play (""Black Coffee""), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh and John Malkovich. Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau"
"title (which in turn was expanded from an earlier, one act play ""People in the Wind"") by William Inge. The inspiration for the play ""Bus Stop"" came from people Inge met in Tonganoxie, Kansas. In the 1961–62 season, ABC adapted the play and film into a television series of the same name, ""Bus Stop"" starring Marilyn Maxwell as the owner of the bus station and diner. In the segment ""Chérie"" which most closely follows the film, Tuesday Weld performed the role of Marilyn Monroe, and Gary Lockwood appeared as the Don Murray character. A naive, rambunctious, overly enthusiastic and socially"
"film Donat made in Hollywood, ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1934). (In exchange Leslie Howard was sent to Korda to make ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"".) The film was successful and Donat was offered the lead role in a number of films for Warners, including ""Anthony Adverse"" (1935) and another swashbuckler, ""Captain Blood"" (1935). However Donat did not like America and returned to Britain. He played on stage in ""Mary Read"" opposite Flora Robson. In England, Donat had the star role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) opposite Madeleine Carroll. His performance was well-received: ""Mr. Donat, who has never been very"
"by Mike O'Connell, is a recurring character in the Comedy Central series ""Another Period"". Roosevelt, as portrayed by Ed Metzger, briefly appears in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Roosevelt family was the subject of ""The Roosevelts"", a documentary directed by Ken Burns. In 2015, ""Showtime"" began to develop a limited series based on the life of Roosevelt. In 2017, it was announced that Leonardo DiCaprio will portray Roosevelt in a biopic to be directed by Martin Scorsese. Through archive recordings, Roosevelt's voice is heard in ""Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"", an episode of ""The Simpsons"". In Don"
"Robert Kent (actor) Robert Kent (born Douglas Blackley, Jr.; December 3, 1908 – May 4, 1955), was an American film actor. His career included starring roles in several film serials of the 1940s, including ""The Phantom Creeps"", ""Who's Guilty?"", and ""The Phantom Rider"". He also had a role in the 1938 film ""The Gladiator"" and was Virginia Vale's leading man in ""Blonde Comet"", a 1941 movie about a female racing driver. He married actress Astrid Allwyn in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 10, 1937, and they were divorced in 1941. He had three children: Kristina, Susan, and Kim Louise. He died"